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Rh order this was done. Then Gliceria turned her face- to the people, and they all saw the holy sign of the cross imprinted on her forehead. She prayed to God to break the idols to which the sacrifices were to be made. Her prayer was miraculously answered. A strange noise was heard, and the marble statue of Jupiter fell to the ground, shattered in pieces. Sabinus, attributing this to magic, ordered Gliceria to be stoned, but the people who ran to drag her away fell down and over each other, thus forming a wall round her. She was sent to a miserable prison, where she was visited and comforted by a Christian priest, Filostratus. She was hung up by the hair and beaten, then cast into a furnace, from which she came out uninjured. She was scalped, but on returning to prison, an angel healed her wounds. As nothing seemed to hurt her, Sabinus decided to keep her in prison until the time of the Games, and then hand her over to be torn by wild beasts. While in prison she converted her chief gaoler, Laodicius. When the time came for her to be led to the arena, he accompanied her, declaring his willingness to die with her for Christ's sake. This so enraged Sabinus, that he had Laodicius killed on the spot. The first lioness that was let loose against Gliceria lay down at her feet and began to lick them. The young saint, weary of waiting, prayed to God to take her to Himself. Her prayer was granted. The second lioness gave her one little bite and touched her no more; but Gliceria soon died of that slight wound, and went straight to heaven. R.M, AA.SS., from Basil's Martyrology, and Arabico-Egyptian Mart. Fiamma, Vite dei Santi, May 11. St. Gliceria (2), or, Oct. 22, M. 2nd or 3rd century. Was converted by seeing the constancy under torture of St. Alexander, bishop, and was put to death immediately after him. AA.SS. (See (5).) St. Gliteria, July 8, M. at Heraclea with many others. Entered this day in ''St. Jerome's Martyrology. AA.SS.'' St. Glodesind, July 20, July 25, Aug. 8 ( etc.), V. + c. 608. Patron of Metz. Abbess and founder of a convent at Metz. Daughter of Winter and Godila, in the time of Childeric, king of France. Married a young nobleman named Obeleno. He had no sooner taken her to his house than the king sent for him and put him in prison for a year because of some villainy that he had committed, and at the end of that time had him beheaded. Her father wished her to marry (again. As she was unwilling, he intended to take her to his sister, Rotelinda, a holy woman at Treves, that she might persuade her to gratify him. Glodesind, however, fled to Metz, and took refuge there in the Church of St. Stephen. Afterwards she went to her pious aunt Rotelinda at Treves, and was instructed by her in monastic observances. Then her parents gave her means to build a convent at Metz, where she had more than a hundred nuns. Migne, Patrology, vol. cxxxvii. Bucelinus. AA.SS, July 25. F.M., July 20. Ballet, Aug. 8. St. Gloriosa (1), May 10, M. at Tarsus, in Cilicia. AA.SS. St. Gloriosa (2), July 26, M. at Laodicea. AA.SS. St. Glossine, . St. Gobdela, or, Sept. 29, M. in Persia. Perhaps the same person, perhaps two sisters, perhaps Gobdela, a magician (man), and Gudelia, a woman. Gobdelaas and Dada are mentioned as men and relations of Sapor in one of the accounts of this persecution. AA.SS. (See .) St. Gobertrude,. St. Gobnata, Feb. lO or 11, V. Abbess of Borneach. Contemporary of St. Abban, who was one of the chief Irish saints of the 6th century, but of whom existing accounts are contradictory and confused. His days are March 16 and Oct. 27. Gobnata was the first abbess of a monastery founded by him at Borneach, now called Ballyvourney, Co. Cork. She is said to have been a descendant of a famous king of Ireland of the name of Conar, and also, without sufficient ground, a daughter of O'Connor, of Sligo. Lanigan. Colgan. St. Gocla, Oct. 8, V. Commemorated